Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speculators & Other People. With production still low and demand growing, the Soviets had spiraled into economic trouble similar in some ways to capitalist inflationary difficulties. The ruble, officially valued at 20 U.S. cents, was worth no more than three in actual buying power. Illegal speculation by bureaucrats, collective-farm bosses, store and factory managers and others had become a lively menace to state planning. Peasants, and some city dwellers, had also accumulated hoards of rubles largely because too few of the things they needed, or wanted to buy, were available. Never knowing when deposits might be frozen, they distrusted banks...
...rate of 25 tons a shift, only to be beaten by Miner Edward Maybank, who cut an average of 25¾ tons a shift. The individual efforts of many another miner had swelled Britain's weekly coal production to 4,298,700 tons, the highest since August 1940. (Low point: 1,587,700 tons in August 1943). The mine modernization program was still too young to show big results, but it promised even higher production figures for the future. In Lancashire, miners chalked the promise on a coal tub: "If we'd better drillers and better cable...
...researchers had collared a few random facts, for what they might be worth. The cold virus can stand a lot of cold: it survived temperatures as low as -94° Fahrenheit. The virus' diameter is estimated to be one ten-thousandth of a millimeter (about the size of the influenza virus...
...three days, Joe Louis lay low in Harlem. Then the champ, smoked out by the New York Post's Columnist Jimmy Cannon, talked for three hours about the fight* without once mentioning the name of his opponent, Jersey Joe Walcott. "He did so many wrong things," said Joe, "I saw every opening, but I couldn't go get him. ... I couldn't do a lot of things." The trouble was, said Joe, he was dehydrated. "I killed myself taking off four pounds. But that ain't no excuse...
...took him seven years to write the novel. When three-quarters of the book was finished, he was recalled to New Mexico. Wallace worked on Ben-Hur in the governor's mansion at Santa Fe, an old building with grime-covered walls, rain-stained cedar rafters, a dark, low ceiling. His wife feared that the lamp burning in the window made him a target for Billy the Kid's bullets-the Kid had now turned against...